Brachmann Breaks Through; Mueller Keeps Momentum; Happy 4th of July!

After near miss after near miss, Chad Brachmann has finally broke through with his first career DIRTcar 358 Series victory. Brachmann's 5th win of the 2013 came in Wednesday night's "Battle of the Border" at Ransomville Speedway and was worth $5,000. Dale Planck led early, but Brachmann was able to take advantage of a restart to take the lead and never looked back. Here's the top 5...

Ransomville Speedway (358 DIRTcar Series)
1st 3 Chad Brachmann
2nd 7z Dale Planck
3rd 42 Pete Bicknell
4th 99J Jimmy Phelps
5th 1R Jeff McGinnis

Matt Sheppard, who had won the first 2 DIRTcar 358 Series races, but was recently penalized $4,000 and 100 points and was entered for Ransomville's race was a no-show.

Airborne Speedway scheduled a rare mid-week event as a result of a slew of rainouts. Jessey Mueller took advantage of an upfront starting spot and held off a hard-charging George Foley to pick up his 4th feature win of 2013 (and first career Airborne victory.) Here's how the top 5 ended up...

Airborne Speedway
1st 19 Jessey Mueller
2nd 34 George Foley
3rd 1H Pierre Berthiaume
4th 4 Leon Gonyo
5th 24 Patrick Dupree

Leon Gonyo took advantage of Todd Stone's rough night (DNF) to take a significant chunk out of Stone's points lead.

Bridgeport was rained out.

Thursday will be a day off, but here's the rest of the weekend schedule...

/5 Accord Speedway
7/5 Albany-Saratoga Speedway
7/5 Brewerton Speedway
7/5 Devil's Bowl Speedway (44 laps)
7/5 Georgetown Speedway
7/5 Glen Ridge Motorsports Park
7/5 Autodrome Granby
7/5 I-88 Speedway
7/5 Mohawk International Raceway (50 laps)
7/5 Penn Can Speedway
7/5 Ransomville Speedway
7/5 Big Diamond Raceway (33 laps $3,300 to win)
7/6 Brockville Ontario Speedway (50 laps)
7/6 Canandaigua Motorsports Park
7/6 Delaware International Speedway
7/6 Five Mile Point Speedway
7/6 Fonda Speedway
7/6 Fulton Speedway
7/6 Grandview Speedway
7/6 Lebanon Valley Speedway (plus small blocks)
7/6 Mahoning Valley Speedway
7/6 Mercer Raceway Park
7/6 Merrittville Speedway
7/6 New Egypt Speedway
7/6 Orange County Fair Speedway (plus small blocks)
7/6 RPM Speedway (Twin 40s)
7/6 Woodhull Raceway
7/7 Eriez Speedway (BRP Tour)
7/7 Cornwall Motor Speedway
7/7 Humberstone Speedway
7/7 Sportsman's Speedway
7/7 Utica Rome Speedway

Happy 4th of July, everyone! Enjoy the holiday!